The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-02-17
RAILROAD PETITIONS.
The Petitions for the Missouri,
Kansas & Southwestern,
And for the EmpOria, Winfield
& Fort Smith Railroads
Presented to the Board Of COun-
ty Commissioners and the
Propositions Submitted and the
Election to be Held
March Is.

The Propositions Acceptable to
the Great Majority Of
the People.
ELECTION PROCLAMATION.
JOURNAL ENTRY OF PROCEEDINGS
OF BOARD.
Now on this fifteenth day of Feb
ruaIy, 1887, at the hour of nine O'Clock
the Board of County Commissioners of
Lyon County, in the State of Kansas,
said County, in the city of Emporia,
pursuant to a call for special meeting
of said Board to be held at said time
and place, made by the Chairman of the
said board, at the request of the MEM
beers Of said Board, as shown by the fol-
lowing, which is a true and correct
copy of such request and:such order:
Board of County Commissioners of
Lyon County in the State of Kansas:
We, the undersigned, members of the
Board of County Commissioners of said
County and State, do hereby respectful
~ request you to cali a special meeting
of the Board of County Commissioners
for the purpose of considering
Board of County Commissioners
of said County and State, signed by
two-fifths of the resident tax payers of
said County of Lyon, asking the said
Board to Gala special election in the
said county of Lyon for the purpose of
submitting a proposition to subscribe to
the capital stock of the Missouri, Kan
sas and South Western Railway Com
pany, for and on behalf of the said
County of Lyon.
ofehaUuho0' J. S. GRIMsLEY.
Upon presentation to me, the under
signed, Chairman of the Board of
County Commissioners of Lyon County,
State of Kansas, of the above and fore
going request, hereby call special
meeting of the Board of County Com
missioners of said County and State, to
be held at the Office of the County Clerk
of said County, in the city of Emporia,
at the hour of nine o'clock, on the fif-
teenth day of February, 1887.
T. E. MCMILLAN,
Chairman OF the board of County Com
missioners of Lyon County, State of
Kansas.
We, the undersigned, members of the
Board of County Commissioners of
Lyon County, State of Kansas, hereby
acknowledge service and notice OF the
| above and foregoing order of the Chair
man of the Board of County Commits
SionerS of Lyon County, in the said
State, calling a special meeting of the
Board of County Commissioners of said
County and State this 10Th day of Feb
ruary 1887.
Signed WV. FLIcKNeEE.
There were present at said meeting
the following members of said board of
county commissioners to-wit: I; u.
Mcmillan, VIM. Fhckinger and j. >.
Grimsley and Roland Lakin county
clerk of said county.
And thereupon there was duly pre-
scented to the said board of county COM
missioners at said meeting petition in
writing requesting said board to order
a special election to be held in the said
county of Lyon, for the purpose of sub
hitting to the qualified electors OF the
said county of Lyon a proposition to
subscribe to the capital stock OF the
Missouri, Kansas & Southwestern rail-
way company for and on behalf of said
| county of Lyon upon the terms and
conditions set forth and named in said
petition, which petition with the sigma
lures thereto omitted is in the words
and figures as follows to-wit:
| PETITION.
To the Honorable Board Of County
!
| Lyon, in the State of Kansas:
We, the undersigned, your petition
ers, each being resident taxpayer of
the county of Lyon, in the State of
Kansas, respectfully petition your hon
orable body to submit to the qualified
electors of said Lyon county, for their
acceptance or rejection, at a special
election to be ordered by your honor.
| able body, under and in pursuance of
the laws of the state of Kansas, and
/ the act entitled ''An act to enable coun-
ties, townships and cities to aid in the
construction of railroads, and to repeal
section eight, of chapter thirty-nine, of
the laws of 1874" approved February
25, 1876, and the amendments thereto,
| the following proposition, with the
terms and conditions herein specified,
to-wit:
Shall the said county of Lyon, in the
state of Kansas, subscribe for fifteen
hundred Il ,5OO) shares of one hundred
dollars each, of the capital stock of the
| Missouri, Kansas s. Southwestern rail-
way company, and in payment thereof
| issue to said railway company one hun
bred and fifty of the bonds of said
| Lyon county of the denomination Of
one thousand dollars each, or SO many
thereof mot exceeding said number) as
| shall amount to not exceeding three
u
of railway constructed in said county
| by said railway company; said bonds to
| be payable to the bearer at the fiscal
agency of the state of Kansas, in New
/ York City, twenty years after the date
thereof, bearing interest at the rate Of
| six per cent. per annum, interest pay
| able semi annually, for which interest
| coupons shall be attached, payable at
| the fiscal agency aforesaid, said bonds
redeemable at the option of said county
years after date thereof; this subScrip-
/ ton Of stock and issue of bonds being
upon the following conditions, namely
AS soon as said propositions shall be
| determined in the affirmative, by can
| vass of the votes cast at such election,
the board of county commissioners of
said county Of Lyon for and on behalf
of said county shall order the county
clerk to make, and the county clerk
l shall maker said subscription in the
name of said county for said fifteen
hundred Il 500 shares Of the capital
stock of said railway company.
And when the railroad of said rail-
way company shall be built and COM
pleted, and shall be in operation, under
lease or otherwise, as continuous line
from Kansas City, Missouri, to the west
the city of Emporia, then fifty of said
one thousand dollar bonds of said county
or so many thereof not exceeding said
number as shall equal the sum
of three thousand dollars PEI
mile of the main line of said
railroad so completed and in operation
as aforesaid, from the east boundary
line of said Lyon county to the west
boundary line of the corporate limits OF
said city of Emporia shall be duly is
| sued and delivered to said railway COM
pany on delivery or tender to the coun-
ty treasurer Of said county Of a certifi-
cate for so many shares of the fun paid
capital stock Of said railway company
as shall equal dollar for dollar the
amount of the bonds of said coun.
ty delivered as aforesaid And
|. when said railroad is completed
and in operation with regular trains
running thereon under lease or other.
wise from the west boundary line of the
corporate limits OF said city of Emporia
to the west boundary line of said Lyon
county, then thirty Of said one thous
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